Well … I’m back and I hoped I might have heart changing stories to tell about what happened in Weymouth. It would have made exciting reading but alas, no can do!
It was strange being back in Weymouth and kinda weird hearing Mum and Steve talk about old friends (which are current to them) some of which I have totally forgotton and can’t remember. It has been 20 years since I left Weymouth really, and that is the excuse I am going to hold onto.
The most frustrsting thing about being back in Weymouth is that God is so obviously there. You only need to look around at the beauty of what is there to see that. I really find it amazing that you can be surrounded by so much natural beauty and (i) not recognise it and (ii) not acknowledge that God the Creator must be real.
We visited some of my favourite places with the children while we were there: Weymouth Sands, Portland Bill, Chesil Beach. Three contrasting scenaries which, I believe, show how creative and fantastic our God is. 
It just amazes me that that the rest of my family live here, in the centre of loads of what is good about God’s creation, yet they just do not see it. If anything, they tend to be quite negative of their surroundings (my brother being an exception), at best being quite complacent about what is around them and at worse complaining about it.
I guess that is not really any different to the rest of us. I believe that even in a grotty place like Gillingham (sorry – but I live here and it is!) God is clear and evident. W can become complacent to his prescence but if we remnind ourselves to look we see him in loads of places. Just in my little back garden today, being able to watch flowers open as the sun appeared, birds sing, children scream, clouds forming shapes, … it is all there if we ever have the time to look for it and notice it.
A challenge: lets look today for something scred in the ordinary of our everyday lives. It would be great if some of those were shared here. Have a great day!
The Shiny Headed Prophet 
I want to encourage you, because I think Gillingham is a dump too, (that’s not the encouragement!) but I do try every morning, and thank God for a) the weather b) my health – as I walk to work, I know I can only do this because I have my health and c)whatever else is going on in my life.I like it when I think back over the (nearly) 2years I’ve been doing the same 2.7 mile walk to work and back again, and I think about all the wonderful colours on the trees, and in the sky. I have walked in literally every type of weather. Sometimes it’s awful and I hate it, sometime I hardly notice, I’m in such a dream. But sometimes, (And it’s getting more often) I enjoy the walk and the things I see in Gillingham. So I think in general I do take for granted the things I see&pass everyday, but I think I am gettting better at looking for God in them.Oh and after all that, I have to make a comment on your miss-type (well I hope it was) when you did not recognse tit! Ha Ha Ha!Sorry, Joe F
Thanks Joe – and you will have noticed I changed the typo!Hope you continue to notice all that good stuff on your way to work.